Best Jobs For Former Assistant Store Managers [2023]

It’s tough to be a assistant store manager nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a assistant store manager isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become assistant store managers in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many assistant store managers no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former assistant store managers to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former ASSISTANT STORE MANAGERS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former ASSISTANT STORE MANAGERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Store Manager	15.27%
2	Customer Service Representative	2.04%
3	Assistant Manager	1.91%
4	Sales Associate	1.86%
5	General Manager	1.45%
6	Operations Manager	1.23%
7	Administrative Assistant	1.08%
8	Manager	1.02%
9	Sales Representative	0.85%
10	Office Manager	0.79%
11	Sales Manager	0.64%
12	Department Manager	0.56%
13	Cashier	0.56%
14	Team Leader	0.51%
15	Human Resources Manager	0.45%
16	Supervisor	0.45%
17	Account Executive	0.41%
18	Sales Consultant	0.41%
19	Owner	0.4%
20	Server	0.4%
21	Specialist	0.39%
22	Teller	0.39%
23	Account Manager	0.38%
24	Owner/operator	0.34%
25	Co-Manager	0.33%
26	Internship	0.32%
27	Project Manager	0.31%
28	Substitute Teacher	0.29%
29	Shift Supervisor	0.28%
30	Office Assistant	0.26%
31	Teacher	0.25%
32	District Manager	0.25%
33	Customer Service Associate	0.25%
34	Personal Banker	0.24%
35	Retail Sales Consultant	0.24%
36	Human Resources Coordinator	0.24%
37	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.23%
38	Security Officer	0.23%
39	Shift Manager	0.22%
40	Service Representative	0.22%
41	Service Manager	0.22%
42	Customer Service Manager	0.21%
43	Receptionist	0.21%
44	Buyer	0.2%
45	Branch Manager	0.19%
46	Recruiter	0.19%
47	Volunteer	0.19%
48	Sales Leader	0.19%
49	Key Holder	0.19%
50	Consultant	0.18%
51	Assistant General Manager	0.18%
52	Associate	0.18%
53	Coordinator	0.18%
54	Merchandiser	0.17%
55	Customer Service Specialist	0.17%
56	Merchandising Manager	0.17%
57	Sales Specialist	0.17%
58	Property Manager	0.16%
59	Technician	0.16%
60	Home Health Aid	0.16%
61	Customer Service Trainer	0.16%
62	District Sales Manager	0.16%
63	Warehouse Worker	0.15%
64	Material Handler	0.15%
65	Area Manager	0.15%
66	Store Director	0.15%
67	Business Manager	0.15%
68	Operation Supervisor	0.15%
69	Pharmacist Technician	0.15%
70	Product Manager	0.14%
71	Executive Team Leader	0.14%
72	Operations Specialist	0.14%
73	Graphic Designer	0.14%
74	Marketing Manager	0.14%
75	Sales Person	0.14%
76	Sales Supervisor	0.13%
77	Executive Assistant	0.13%
78	Warehouse Associate	0.13%
79	Retail Sales Manager	0.13%
80	Machine Operator	0.13%
81	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.13%
82	Assistant	0.12%
83	Technical Support Specialist	0.12%
84	Operations Director	0.12%
85	Department Supervisor	0.12%
86	Retail Sales Representative	0.12%
87	Program Manager	0.12%
88	Training Manager	0.12%
89	Owner/manager	0.12%
90	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.12%
91	Service Advisor	0.12%
92	Center Manager	0.12%
93	Shift Leader	0.11%
94	Agent	0.11%
95	Visual Merchandising Manager	0.11%
96	Inside Sales Representative	0.11%
97	Certified Pharmacist Technician	0.11%
98	Visual Merchandiser	0.11%
99	Human Resources Assistant	0.11%
100	Registered Nurse	0.11%

Most Common Jobs For Former ASSISTANT STORE MANAGERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a assistant store manager would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former assistant store managers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ASSISTANT STORE MANAGERS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed assistant store manager under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a assistant store manager, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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